Pope Francis on Monday urged European governments to keep welcoming migrants while acknowledging security and other concerns over the recent mass influx of people mainly from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Addressing ambassadors to the Holy See in the aftermath of the New Year's Eve...

Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to ease the pressure on them to migrate, Volkan Bozkir, Turkey's minister for European Affairs, said on Monday. The number of people immigrating illegally exceeded 150,000 in 2015, and Turkish authorities stopped 500 migrants...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rehabilitation and physiotherapy centre in Reyhanli, a Turkish border city with Syria, is about to shut down due to lack of funds, leaving its Syrian patients wondering of their future medical and clinical conditions, or even how to afford for...

Cologne police on Sunday said they had now recorded over 500 cases of New Year's Eve violence blamed on migrants, piling fresh pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her liberal stance towards refugees. Marking a sharp jump from the caseload of 379 given on...